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ROPE HALTER BUCKLE.

No. 296,329. Patented Apr. s, 1884.'

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Nrrn *rares JOHN GIBBONS, OF WEST TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE UNION HARDWARE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

ROPE-HALTER BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part oi' Letters Patent No. 296,329, dated April 8, 1884.

Application iled January 21, 1894.

10 halters are made to connect the end of the rope with the latter at a suflicient distance from the end to produce what is known as the leaddoopf7 and to the opposite sides of which loop, When formed, the ends of the The object and purpose of my invention is to producea device for this use which can be securely attached to the rope in a line of union that is parallel or nearly parallel to the rope,

no and so as to avoid .the lrinking and tortuous threading of the rope through a series of openings made in a plate.

Accompanying this speciiication and l'orrning a part of it are two plates oi' drawings, containing three figures, illustrating my invention, with the same designation of parts by letter-reference used in all of them, and of Which- Figure l shows a perspective of the device 3o looselyr threaded onto the rope, but not con nected by means of the securing ring and spur. Fig. 2 shows a perspective of the device attached to the rope by means of the spur and securingring. Fig. 3 shows a completed halter containing my invention.

The several parts of'the device are desig- Mnated by letter reference, and their applied function explained as follows:

The letter P indicates a plate having a con- 40 cave interior surface, C', a convex exterior surface, C2, and with an extension, l, that is obtusely beveled in the line of its projection from that containing its concave and convex surfaces. with au opening, O, so that a rope threaded through the latter is in a position to be encircled by the rounded-out plate to the extent of its Width.

The letter F indicates a feather projection 5o on the convex face of the plate, made to have an abrupt termination a; and R designates a ring provided with a groove, G, for the passage of said feather when the ring is slipped on over the plate P" This beveled extension is made (No model.)

The letter S indicates a spur formed on the inwardly-rounded surface C, and E au eye formed on the end of the beveled extension.

The device thus nrade is connected to the rope in the following manner: The rope A is threaded through the opening O, and the rounded-out part of the plate P pressed down 4over and around the rope, with the spur S entered into the latter, and With the ring R passed on over the end of the plate by means of the groove G, and the ring turned until its edge abuts against the abrupt termination a, cf the feather F. This rnily secures the device to the rope and ou line of attachment nearly parallel tothe latter, in which positionl the eye E is adapted to connect with a snaphook on the end of the rope, and thus produce the halter lead-loop.

ln a former patent granted to me October 11, 1883, No. 286,808, for a device having the saine use, a semi-cylinder provided with a hook to secure the rope, a spur to enter and hold the latter, and an opening for its pasvrope is passed is dispensed with, and a grooved ring and feather are employed to secure the parts, instead of the hook.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

In a halteraope buckle, the combination of a plate having an interior concave and an exterior convex surface, a spur on the concave interior of the plate, an elongated extension of said plate that is beveled obtusely from the rounded-out part thereof on its projection therefrom, an eye on the end of said extension, an elongated opening i n said extension adapted for the passage of the halter-rope, a feather made with an abrupt termination and constructed on the exterior of the rounded-out part, and a ring made with a groove for the passage of said ring over said feather, plate, and included rope, in the manner and for the purposes herein set forth.

Signed at Troy, New York, this 5th day of December, 1883, and in our presence Whose naines were by us hereto written.

JOHN GIBBONS.

Witnesses:

CHARLES S. BRINTNALL, Gao. R. itineranti?.p

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